Carabao Cup: Arsenal 1-3 Brighton - Seagulls move into last 16 with win at Emirates Stadium

Danny Welbeck scored 32 goals successful 126 appearances successful each competitions for Arsenal betwixt 2014 and 2019

Premier League leaders Arsenal were knocked retired of the Carabao Cup arsenic Brighton gained a daze distant victory.

Danny Welbeck, who played for the Gunners successful the 2018 final, made it 1-1 with a punishment aft helium had been fouled by debutant location goalkeeper Karl Hein.

Kaoru Mitoma enactment Brighton up aft a neat passing determination and Tariq Lamptey added a 3rd with a debased strike.

The nonaccomplishment successful this third-round necktie was lone the 3rd clip successful 20 matches successful each competitions that Arsenal had been beaten this season.

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Mikel Arteta made 10 changes from the 1-0 triumph astatine Chelsea and the Gunners looked connected people for the past 16 erstwhile they took the pb done Nketiah's fantabulous 20th-minute strike.

Eddie Nketiah's extremity was his 3rd of the play for Arsenal, with him besides scoring doubly successful the Europa League

However, their pb lone lasted 7 minutes.

Hein, a 20-year-old Estonia planetary goalkeeper who had a indebtedness spell astatine Reading past season, was making his archetypal elder quality for the Gunners but brought down Welbeck, who past converted the spot kick.

Arsenal astir retook the pb erstwhile Nketiah fired a changeable against the station from extracurricular the punishment country with Albert Sambi Lokonga besides shooting conscionable wide.

Those misses proved costly arsenic Mitoma got his 2nd extremity for Brighton successful 5 days aft besides scoring successful the 3-2 triumph astatine Wolves connected Saturday, earlier Lamptey added a third.

On making 10 changes, Arsenal manager Arteta felt it had been the close happening to do.

"I would prime the aforesaid players if I had the accidental again," helium said. "There was a large quality betwixt ratio successful some areas and we paid a large terms for it.

"It's a shame for the boys due to the fact that they truly tried and we should person scored 2 oregon 3 successful the 2nd half."

When asked if the effect suggests Arsenal request to adhd to their squad successful the January transportation window, Arteta said: "That's the squad that we have. We person to utilise successful the champion imaginable mode and contiguous we came short.

"It's the aforesaid squad arsenic erstwhile we win. I said from time 1 that we person a abbreviated squad due to the fact that astatine the extremity we near immoderate players. It's what we have."

Brighton's champion show successful the EFL Cup came successful 1978-79 erstwhile they reached the quarter-finals, but this is present the 3rd successive play wherever they person reached the past 16.

The gully for the adjacent circular volition instrumentality spot connected Thursday night, pursuing the lucifer betwixt Manchester United and Aston Villa astatine Old Trafford.